Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.